Thursday | July 12, 2007 7:30 pm

The Moon Also Rises

Director in Person
Screening on Film

Directed by Lin Cheng-sheng.
With Lin Jia-Yu, Yang Kuei-mei.
Taiwan, 2005, 35mm, color, 113 min.
Hokkien, Mandarin and Japanese with English subtitles.

Set in the seaside town of Taidong in the early 1960s, The Moon Also Rises follows the lives of a deeply religious divorcée and her schoolteacher daughter, who wishes to marry her cousin. The film was adapted from a popular story by writer Li Ang and earned actress Yang Kuei-mei a Golden Horse Award.